Speech, language and voice treatments

Our voice clinic team is staffed by physicians and therapists from a variety of specialties. They work together to diagnose your child’s condition and create a customized treatment plan.

Voice clinic treatment procedures

Viewing the upper airway including the voice box (also called videostroboscopy)

Viewing the lungs (also called bronchoscopy)

Vocal fold injection (also called injection laryngoplast)

Swallowing disorder treatments

Our multi-disciplinary Aerodigestive Disorders Program provides a comprehensive approach to treating children with complex feeding and airway issues, including swallowing disorders. The clinic is staffed with specialists from different disciplines who will evaluate your child’s conditions and work as a team to devise a treatment plan.

Children typically seen in the clinic may have other conditions and therefore they may require a variety of treatments. Some include:

Changing your child’s diet

Drug therapy

Surgery

Feeding tubes

Facial and neck mass treatments

There are a wide range of facial and neck mass disorders and each one has specific tests and treatments. Depending on which disorder your child has, one or more of the following tests and treatments could be performed to diagnose and treat the face and neck mass disorder.

MRI and CAT scans

X-rays

Ultrasound

Biopsy

Blood and urine tests

Abscess drainage

Stretching exercises and infant stimulation

Antibiotic medication

Surgical removal

Lymphangiogram (LAG) test of the lymphatic system

Chemotherapy

Radiation

Bone marrow transplant

Craniofacial

Our ENT Program works in conjunction with our Center for Craniofacial Disorders to devise treatment plans for children with common to complex disorders and plastic surgery needs.

Facial trauma treatments

Children’s ENT physicians are here to help when a face injury occurs. We will first ensure that your child’s airway is still open and he or she can breathe. If you determine the face injury to be an emergency, take your child to the emergency room or dial 911.

Treatments for face injuries include:

Bandages and wound treatment

Stitches (or suturing open wounds)

Ice

Antibiotics and pain killers

Moving bones back into place

Surgery

Tracheal disorder treatments

Children Hospital of Wisconsin is one of approximately five hospitals in the U.S. with the expertise to care for infants and children with complex tracheal disorders. Our ENT physicians work in conjunction with a cardiothoracic surgeon (heart and lung surgeon) in treating tracheal disorders. Tests and treatments include:

Procedure to view the larynx and vocal cords (also called microlaryngoscopy)

Guided tube procedure (through mouth and into esophagus)

Biopsy

Surgery

Observation

Tracheostomy dependent children

We treat kids who are dependent on a tube and/or ventilator to help them breathe long term. Our ENT physicians work with the Pulmonary Medicine program to devise treatments for children with complicated breathing issues. Our caring staff will also work with your family to devise long term occupational therapy solutions.

Multidisciplinary programs

We have a number of multidisciplinary programs to treat various conditions. ENT physicians lead the following programs (and other medical specialists contribute):